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rasbury
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I finally got back to the ramp and out on the water in spectacular Florida weather, blue angles flying around...boat runs excellent! Probably the best since I've had it.
I seem to keep having issues with charging. I've done well in the past with just the regular marine batteries from like an auto zone. Past 3 years have not been in the water much- did have it home a few months working on some stuff and kept it on a charger. As of late its been at the dry storage. I took it out week before last and jumped it off battery one- but I was getting 4 beeps which I never found anything on online- someone on here said that was like a voltage warning...I brought it home Friday night, on the charger over night and went early am today- you know, before it got to hot. Hit the key on bat one and the click. Tried to jump that bat and still got clicks. I flipped to bat 2, did not try with the jump box off and it fired right up...so I just ran around on the river on bat 2 which is the smaller house battery. Had lunch and restarted on two no issues- so decided to run down the river a bit- so long since it had anything close to a good run- but heard the 4 beeps a couple of times so headed home. I noticed when i was back at the ramp bat one very hot to the touch. As far as stuff left on while in storage I did leave tge vhf on..helm and battery switch were for sure off.
I'm going to pull the one battery and charge it at home and then tested. I need to understand how to see if my battery charger is working properly. The engine was show right at 14V but I did not have my meter. I'm thinking I bought both batteries right at 6 months ago.
I seem to keep having issues with charging. I've done well in the past with just the regular marine batteries from like an auto zone. Past 3 years have not been in the water much- did have it home a few months working on some stuff and kept it on a charger. As of late its been at the dry storage. I took it out week before last and jumped it off battery one- but I was getting 4 beeps which I never found anything on online- someone on here said that was like a voltage warning...I brought it home Friday night, on the charger over night and went early am today- you know, before it got to hot. Hit the key on bat one and the click. Tried to jump that bat and still got clicks. I flipped to bat 2, did not try with the jump box off and it fired right up...so I just ran around on the river on bat 2 which is the smaller house battery. Had lunch and restarted on two no issues- so decided to run down the river a bit- so long since it had anything close to a good run- but heard the 4 beeps a couple of times so headed home. I noticed when i was back at the ramp bat one very hot to the touch. As far as stuff left on while in storage I did leave tge vhf on..helm and battery switch were for sure off.
I'm going to pull the one battery and charge it at home and then tested. I need to understand how to see if my battery charger is working properly. The engine was show right at 14V but I did not have my meter. I'm thinking I bought both batteries right at 6 months ago.
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The simple thing is to charge the battery or batteries that were dead and then load test. Put them back in the boat and see if they die again with everything turned off this time. Checking charging voltage at battery while running would also be a good idea.
Do you have a battery isolator? If you don't have shore power to charge off of you have to run it long enough to charge the first battery before it's full enough to then start charging the next battery
Battery getting too hot is a sign of either an internal short or getting too much voltage.
maybe dig into that a bit. Wonder if the charger boiled the batt electrolyte dry. Check your batt levels.
I only plug in for a 24-36hrs max. Thinking of upgrading the PD. On the list
And yes they are terrific fish to eat.
I know the rinker won't fit but have you fished any of the canals? I love bass fishing, if I had a little jon boat and a trolling motor I'd be hitting the canals every chance I got.